Posted on 05/19/2020 1:39:09 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
If there’s one piece of advice graduating high school seniors are probably hearing a lot of these days, it’s this: take a gap year.
Calls encouraging the class of 2020 to defer college for a year continue to mount amid the coronavirus pandemic and resulting lockdown.
“Dear High School Seniors: It’s Time To Consider A Gap Year Thanks To Covid-19,” writes Eric Brotman, a financial planner, in Forbes.
“Waiting a year may be the best move in order to ensure you get the traditional college freshman experience, both academically and socially,” Brotman writes. “Taking a gap year may not have been your original plan, but it can present you with a lot of new opportunities.”
He suggested getting a job to save up some money or...
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
This! They’re deferring the start of their careers for what? The likelihood of jobs being available will be small, with so many people trying to re-enter the workforce. The mortality rate for the age group is near zero, so what justifies holding off for a year?
Let’s see, they could use the Gap Year to...
1. Travel the world and experience other cultures. Uh, No.
2. Get a job in NYC and try living on the cheap in Soho. Uh, No.
3. Shelter in Place with Mom & Dad and play video games for a year. Yeah!!
Brownshirts?...
“what justifies holding off for a year?”
Well, they COULD catch COVID!
They COULD get ill.
They COULD get seriously ill.
They COULD get admitted to the hospital.
It COULD all happen, you know.
I’d think having weathered going through school during a pandemic would be both a worthwhile experience and a feather in the cap re:future employment & advancement.
The college my oldest grandson is heading to already has their calendar up for the coming school year. They have every intention of opening. One thing he doesn’t need is more time at home. He needs to be among his peers.
The libs who run universities are refusing to reopen in the fall, and possibly all year. They want the students to pay full frieght, and in some cases more, for virtual classes.
I think it's a smart move for freshmen especially to say no thanks to that.
If the universities take a big enough financial hit, they will have to reopen. And maybe close down some of the useless crap like all the ethnic and gender studies programs.
What—meaningfully—could these incoming college freshmen do with a gap year during the pandemic, even if what they do makes little or no money?
Maybe they can take some online courses. Otherwise, there is NOTHING meaningful they can do, especially under stay-at-home orders.
PHOOEY!!!!
too funny my son a freshman in HS who is already homeschooled for 3 days & 2-campus days
has no prob enjoying video games for hours on end and not having to dress in his required blazer and tie for campus days.
He absolutely has no prob with the pandemic.
Learn to code.
I took a year off after HS and before college as I did NOT want to go directly to college.
I had some REALLY crappy jobs (union tuna cannery job is still the worst job ever), and one good job. I was ready for college when the next fall came around...
It was good for ME as I KNEW I needed to take some time. I’ve always been different...
A gap year sounds good. Would hate to miss the true experience of freshman “rush week”. “Skype” parties are just not the same. :-)
Take a gap year to self-quarantine.
If the Dems was planning to recruit an army of morons with malleable values, nothing better to do for a few months, and the skills to send out a stream of text messages, make phone calls and fill out online forms for liberal activist groups, this is where they’re gonna find them.
All of the factory jobs people seem to think exist in huge numbers.
The schools are not opening in a traditional way. Why pay private school tuition to have your kid learning on a PC in the basement.
No way. If I were graduating high school I’d aim for graduating college in 2024. That senior class will be tiny, hence, good job hunting.
Flattening the college curve.
The world needs ditch diggers, too.
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